What sort of clubs, socs etc. do you want to get involved in when you go up?

How did you find the interview experience?

Emmanuel College.I am interested in maybe some Sports Societies I enjoyed playing Frisbee at Summer School but I might not have the time or effort to do any societies due to studying.I thought I did very well in my first interview pretty much getting all the answers, some of them very quickly with some help required and some small errors but in the other interview I really struggled and panicked struggling to sketch a C3 graph but when I was stuck I just mentioned what knowledge I had to try and show I knew what I was doing.I think I would have been rejected for the second interview and I couldn't see myself being rejected for how well I did in the first interview and they must have thought I was good enough to get in and I wasn't pooled either.

(Original post by Kyou)
Well done on your Cambridge offer! Any tips on how to actually get in the mood to revise? I'm in Year 11 and have As in Maths and the 3 sciences however I van't seem to get it up to a A* .

Do lots of past papers Maths is pretty much practise and practise and you get better I didn't have to do much to get an A* in Maths though it was easy I was looking into A Level papers at the time.I found GCSE Sciences really difficult though I revised by going over and over the book making sure I knew the key facts and also watching myGCSEScience videos I couldn't recommend them more they were fantastic and really helped me learn topics I hadn't covered in class(my teachers missed out a lot of topics for some reasons, I thrashed my fellow pupils as a result) and since there weren't many past papers I did all the new past papers and also did some of the old specifications much of the content is the same and the content that isn't the same helps you get a deeper understanding of the topic.

(Original post by The Financier)
Do you still believe you've discovered a new area of Mathematics. or more specifically, that 44 = 16?

I think that I went a bit too far with Symbolic Maths but I have learnt new Maths and seen new patterns as a result of that and the Symbolic Maths has encouraged me to discover lots of new not too ridiculous types of new Maths like tangents to points not on the curve, the rate at which a curve is multiplying by(this has actually been done by real Mathematicians so I know I am on the right lines) and I have developed this much further, I have looked at differentiating functions only valid for integers and thus developed approximations for the derivatives of functions valid for all real values(my x! derivative of x!is very accurate for high values of (x!ln((x+1)(x)))/2 that derivative is the derivative of x! with domain in all integers but is a good approximation for x! valid for all real values etc.

Congratulations on the offer. Like others have said, it's impressive how much you've overcome to get where you are now.

I'm curious - and I'm going to be blunt but please don't take offence. How can you be so smart, in particularly getting an A* in GCSE English, but your sentence structure, grammar and punctuation are so bad. Do you just not care?

(Original post by ImNotSuperman)
Congratulations on the offer. Like others have said, it's impressive how much you've overcome to get where you are now.

I'm curious - and I'm going to be blunt but please don't take offence. How can you be so smart, in particularly getting an A* in GCSE English, but your sentence structure, grammar and punctuation are so bad. Do you just not care?

I try harder in exams with my SPaG but I am pretty bad at it for coursework you could prepare for it in advance and correct it but in the exam I got 4/8 for SPaG(below average) but I only lost 4 marks so still got a high A in the exam and an A* with the coursework.I got my A* through only dropping 3(4 with moderation) marks over Reading and Speaking and I got the exact mark needed for an A*, I am probably only a B/C at Writing and I did my GCSE in Y10 so am out of practice.I certainly wouldn't get an A* now due to an increase in SPaG and removal of the Speaking component counting towards your grade.I have seen people get annoyed on here about how you cvan get away with poor SPaG and get good marks at English but the content is the most important thing I think SPaG is just stupid human-made rules, with no real solid basis to them like Science.

(Original post by Dalek1099)
I have some very controversial opinions and I'm not afraid to speak them and a lot of it has to do with people not liking my obsession with academia and that B grades aren't very good at GCSE.

I payed a lot of attention in class and I did all my homework.The amount of revision I did varied but I did loads of past papers for Sciences and read over the book several times and watched all the myGCSEScience videos.For Maths I hardly revised getting an A* was a joke and for English there wasn't much you could you do I familiarised myself with the book a bit and read over some notes on some interpreations and I went over and prepared well my last writing coursework as I had to do well to get an A* and I was only really a B/C at Writing.For French I did all the past papers I could find from all the boards and did loads of vocabularly learning as well as going over and over my Speaking and Writing coursework-I could go into more detail about my other subjects but I can't be bothered.

(Original post by Dalek1099)
I payed a lot of attention in class and I did all my homework.The amount of revision I did varied but I did loads of past papers for Sciences and read over the book several times and watched all the myGCSEScience videos.For Maths I hardly revised getting an A* was a joke and for English there wasn't much you could you do I familiarised myself with the book a bit and read over some notes on some interpreations and I went over and prepared well my last writing coursework as I had to do well to get an A* and I was only really a B/C at Writing.For French I did all the past papers I could find from all the boards and did loads of vocabularly learning as well as going over and over my Speaking and Writing coursework-I could go into more detail about my other subjects but I can't be bothered.

If I paid attention in all my classes, done my homework and revised for all my subject, I reckon I could have gotten an A* in all my exam-based subjects. I never, so I ended up with mainly Bs.

Any of the double award coursework-based subjects (for me, Business Studies and Engineering double award) require A LOT of effort. It's very easy to fail, if you have the same attitude as with other subjects or fall behind because of missed lessons. Those are the (truly) hard subjects. I fell behind.

From my experience, the unfortunate truth is that people have different learning capacities so be guarded in what you say.

(Original post by XcitingStuart)If I paid attention in all my classes, done my homework and revised for all my subject, I reckon I could have gotten an A* in all my exam-based subjects. I never, so I ended up with mainly Bs.

Any of the double award coursework-based subjects (for me, Business Studies and Engineering double award) require A LOT of effort. It's very easy to fail, if you have the same attitude as with other subjects or fall behind because of missed lessons. Those are the (truly) hard subjects. I fell behind.

From my experience, the unfortunate truth is that people have different learning capacities so be guarded in what you say.

It is expected of all pupils to do all homework and to pay attention at all times in class this is the minimum effort expected from students, those who don't are misbehaving students.If you don't pay attention that what are you doing in the class? and you will usually get told off by teachers as you have to do the work they set you and concentrate when they are talking and homework is compulsory so doing all homework is expected.

(Original post by ImNotSuperman)
I'm curious - and I'm going to be blunt but please don't take offence. How can you be so smart, in particularly getting an A* in GCSE English, but your sentence structure, grammar and punctuation are so bad. Do you just not care?

Mathmos.

All his posts are the same and it is so frustrating if you ever try to read a full one. Each paragraph is seemingly a single sentence, and if he were to say that aloud he would pass out before he came to the end of a sentence, or to a pause, to take a breath.

All his posts are the same and it is so frustrating if you ever try to read a full one. Each paragraph is seemingly a single sentence, and if he were to say that aloud he would pass out before he came to the end of a sentence, or to a pause, to take a breath.

Not sure he can help that. There's a correlation (N.B. not a causation) between mathematical ability and difficulty in communicating. He's probably on the autistic spectrum.